' PAGE SIX Lions Edg Harriers End Franz Stars; Ron Younker Scores Winning Points Christmas came a little early to State College this year. In near freezing weather 15,000 brave spectators sat in the snow infested Beaver Field stands to watch Penn State ex change touchdowns with Fordham—the Lions winning out in the final minutes of the football contest, 28-21. With the brilliant quarterbacking of Roger Franz, the Rams were never to be denied. He not only spearheaded Coach Danowski’s eleven to a near upset but outpassed State’s ace quarterback, Co-captain Tony Rados. He was also one of the three Fordham players to play the entire 60 minutes. End Andy Nacrelli and guard Dick Al gatt were the others. Franz’ excellent pitching record was 15 completions out of 23 at tempts for 157 yards, while Rados completed only three out of 12 for 30 yards. Doss of the sparkling Rados-to Jim Garrity pigskin battery ham pered the Dions somewhat. How ever, - the outstanding offensive and defensive playing of halfback Ron Younker and the running of Denny Moore spoke for Penn State. The Dions, who outrushed the Rams, 247 to 119 yards, were paced by Moore who gained 109 yards in 11 carries. j Speed—it’s wonderful stuff! But instead of Engle’s passing weapon keeping the door open for the big breezes to blow, it was key line blocking which did the trick. That’s just what State needed to score Moore twice, Younker and Charlie Blockson each once, The Rams threatened early in the game, marching to Penn State’s eight yard stripe where they were halted short of a first down. Rados and Garrity stopped John Griffin short of one yard to give the Lions the ball. Neither the Lions nor the Rams did much until Penn State held Danowski’s squad on downs just after the start of the second quar ter. The Lions took oven on their own 46. Blockson’s five yard ad vance was to no avail as his team mates were offside. On the next play, however, Moore on a trap play scampered 59 yards for the initial score of. the game. Green gave the swivel halfback a key block. Buddy Rowell kicked the Frosh Gridders Drub Navy, 25-0 Unlike Beaver Field, the snow wasn’t cleared away at Annapolis Saturday. But it made little difference to the Penn State freshman footballers as they went on to post a surprisingly easy 25-0 win over the Navy plebes. From the time State’s Ray Alberigi returned a punt 62 yards for touchdown early in the first quar ter, the Lions had command. In fact, the- Middies could muster but one first down during the en tire game, so good was the Nit tahy defense, Lion Coach. Carl Bruce was elated with his team’s defensive play as well as the punting of quarterback Milt Plum, whose boots kept Navy in a hole all day. The squad did not arrive in Anna polis until 3 a.m. Saturday morn ing because of the hazardous driv ing conditions, but the Lions did hot show any effects / of the grind in their play. State, which closed its slate with a one win-one loss record, could not score again in the first half, but kept Navy pretty much ‘in its'own territory. The Middies hurt themselves with fumbles, while seeing several of their passes intercepted by Lion de fenders. Penn State got its offense roll ing in the last half, tallying three touchdowns. The Nittanies drove down to the Tar 25-yard line, but were stalled and faced a fourth down situation. The Lions decided to play for a break, and Plum punted out of bounds inside the Middie ten. Three plays later, the break By SAM PROCOPIO point after touchdown and State led, 7-0. Franz quickly led his team to paydirt. He completed four passer for 10, 16, 16 and 10 yards in tlr 68 yard march. A pitchout to Me. lachy Stafford climaxed the Ti drive. Joe Yalch’s extra point tie' matters, 7-7. Penn State’s second score came late in the second period, covering 36 yards in six plays. Blockson, consuming most of the yardage, made a beautiful catch of Rados’ pass on Fordham’s 3 for 20 yards. On the next play the fullback plunged for the TD. Garrity con verted to put the Lions ahead. 14-7. In the third quarter right half back Joe Palmieri intercepted one of Rados’ passes on State’s 44 Jo the latter’s 9 with Earl Shumaker making the tackle. Palmieri add ed another yard. Then Franz step ped back and completed a pass to Yalch for another score. Yalch’s kick made it 14-14. Although Moore returned the kickoff 32 yards, the Lions were forced to kick. Rados punted to Yalch, but he fumbled. Younker, who saved the day several times with his defensive play, recovered for State on Fordham’s 18. Block son and Moore brought the ball to the four. Three plays’ later the latter stalwart crossed the goal line with a one yard plunge. Gar rity again converted. The Lions’ seven point lead was soon tied however, as Franz’ pitching arm, John Griffin and Andy “where-art-thou” Romeo’s runs did the trick. Romeo scored the Rams’ final, TD from the one (Continued on page seven ) came when Lion tackle Ned Fink beiner charged through to block a Navy punt in its end zone. Fink beiner fell on the ball for the score, and the game was as good as wrapped up. The Lions put the icing on the cake in the last stanza by scoring twice. Stu Wiggins scored both TD’s on short plunges after a sus tained Lion march each time. Plum split the uprights after the third TD, his only conversion of the day. Although the schedule is com pleted, the frosh will hold se,veral practices both this week and next, with scrimmages against the var sity being the keynote of the drills. 5M Boxing Entries Are Being Accepted Entries are now being accept ed for the intramural boxing tournament. An organization may enter one contestant in each of the eight weight classes, while in dividuals need not be members of a team. Each individual must call at the TM office and enter himself. The ’■ir.dline for entries is 4:30' Fri day. tttr DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA y —Photo by Schroede: "’ENN STATE'S running sensation, Lenny Moore (42). dives ove. he Fordham line from the 1-yard "iripe for th'e Nittany Lion:. bird score. The touchdown came i:: _\s3 of the third period. Rogc '■.'ranz (12), who kept the Rams ,‘n.the game with pis brillian. passing, comes in to help Fordham's line. It was to no avail, how ever. Penn State won the game in the fourth period when Ron Younker scored on a 35-yard TD run, 28-21. Snow Halts Soccer Meet at Annapolis After being postponed from Friday morning until Saturday be cause of a sudden snow storm, Penn State’s final soccer game on the road was canceled Saturday at Annapolis. The cancelation was only the second time that a Lion soccer match had been called because of weather. * | : The Lions arrived at Annapolis Friday morning. “When we ar rived,” Coach Ken Hosterman said, “there were four inches of snow on the field.” Although the game could have been played then, Navy’s coach Floyd Warner, would not agree to play the scheduled tilt, he said. “We agreed to wait until Satur day morning because of a weather report received at Annapolis which said the snow would change to rain, with clearing skies,” Hos terman said. On Saturday morn ing nearly eight inches of snow blanketed the Navy field. Werner claimed that no equip ment was available to clear the soccer field, although the end Two position changes took place Saturday in the Daily Col legian football prediction contest as Assistant Football Coach Sever "Tor’ Toretti and staff writer Herm. Weiskopf topped the swa mis in the seventh week of the battle. Weiskopf picked 13 of 15 games correctly to boost his average to .714 and move into second place in the contest. Toretti was correct on 12 choices to raise the coaches’ mark to .705. However, the men tors are still tied for third place. Assistant Sports Editor Dick Mc- Dowell selected only 9 winners to drop into a. deadlock with the coaches. McDowell has a .705 avr erage. Sports Editor Sam Procopio still leads the contest although his av erage dropped Saturday. He pick ed 11 games correctly and has a .762 percentage. Only two weeks remain in the contest which ends Nov. 21. Pro copio, with an 80-25 record is five games ahead of his nearest op ponent, Weiskopf (75-30), and six ahead of the coaches and McDow ell (74-31).. Toretti, who selected for the first time this year, turned in the second best record for the coaehc: since the contest began. Jim O’- Hara holds the best seasonal mark for the coaches, 13-2. The standings: 1. Procopio, (.762) 80-25 2. Weiskopf, (.714) 75-30, 3. McDov." 1 ' 1 , Coaches (fie) | .705) 74-31. 1 Fordham, 28-21; Season Unbeaten Lead, Coaches Gain in Grid Poll By ROY WILLIAMS I zones of the football field for the .Middle’s freshman football game with Pehn State were cleared. I Navy, who owned a 3-4-1 rec iord including a loss to Maryland, 1 6-5, and a 0-0 tie with Cornell, | lies along the Severn River. The Iwarm breezes from the River, par Itially melted the snow on the i football field, but didn’t affect the soccer field which lies beyond it. j The only time any soccer game [has ever been canceled, was in :1950 against Temple when Phila , delphia had a similar storm. ; This Saturday, the Lions will ihost Temple for one of the -final j two home games of ' the season. I “Temple will be the toughest Steam in our schedule this season,” I .Hosier man said. Cagers Begin 2tcl Week I^nll The Lion basketball squad opened its second week of pre-season practice yesterday as the Nittany floormen prepare for their opener with' Washington and Jefferson Dec. 5. » Minus standouts Jesse Arnelle and Jack Sherry, the Nittanies traveled to St. Francis Friday ni'ght for an exhibition scrimmage with the Frankies. Elmer Gross’ cagers dropped a 65-37 verdict as Ed Haag and sophomore Jim Christenson led the scoring with ten points apiece. Ed Rudler, an other sophomore up from the freshman team, tallied nine points ■for the Lions. , The cagers are scheduled to meet Lock Haven State Teachers College at Rec Hall Friday night in another exhibition 'contest. Arnelle Top Scorer The cagers definitely lack a big part, of their scoring punch with out Sherry or Arnelle in the line up. Arnelle tallied 408. points in 24 games last, season for a 17- point per-game average' to lead the Nittanies. Sherry totaled 248 points for a 10.3 average. Both players, along with Bob Rohland and sophomore Bob Hoff man, are playing football and will not join the squad until a week before the opening game with the,. Presidents. Offensive Records Gross, and his cagers will be out to better last year’s 15-9 rec ord when they open the 19-game card after Thanksgiving recess. The 1952-53 Nittanies were a fine offensive team. Two teams rec- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1953 Wernermen Win Fifth Meet. 17-41 By HERM WEISKOPF Although the Nittany hill and-dalers did not wear their wading boots, they managed to outslosh and outrun Man hattan Saturday, 17-41. Th e victory enabled the Lions to return to the Nittany Valley with an undefeated record for the four-meet season. Chick Werner’s harriers put to cher their first undefeated sea m since the 1950 team won five ' might. The victory gave the ions a six-meet win streak that ..ates back to last year. Saturday’s win was the fifth consecutive time the Nittanies have outlegged the Jaspers. Once , again it was the. Blue and White Triple-Trouble Trio which was the deciding factor in the race. Captain Red)Hollen, Lamont Smith and Doug Moorhead ac counted for the first three posi tions for the third time in four meets this season. They finished in a tie for first with a clocking of 26:22. Against Cornell, which was the first and only home meet., of the campaign, the Trio tied for first -with a time of 26:567 At Annapolis Smith was first, Hollen second and Moorhead third. Hollen arid Smith tied for the lead' in the Michigan State battle, while Moorhead came in fourth. Ted Garrett came up with his best race of the year. He raced it out with Manhattan’s Jim De- Braggio. Coming into the final few hundred yards, both runners b£gan sprinting. They hit the fin ish line in an almost dead heat and were both clocked at 26:56. Deßraggio, however, finished a few inches in the lead and was) awarded fourth place, while Gar rett carried off fifth place hon ors. Van Cortlandt Park’s five-mile course was a muddy mess due to the unseasonable weather which (Continued on page'seven) ords and one individual scoring record fell as the Lions poured 1455 points through the hoops. •The old team scoring average, set in 1951-52, was broken as the floormen hit for an average of 67.3 per game. The original mark stood at 65.7. The cagers also topped the single game scoring mark with 105 points against Ith ica at Rec Hall. Arnelle, high scorer on the quin tet for the past two seasons, topped Lou Lamie’s career total (666). The 6-4 center has.9oo points in two seasons with two yet to play. 1952-53 Averages Arnelle, Sherry, Haag, and Ron Weidenhammer form the nucleous of the 1953-squad. Haag played in 23 games last season and fin ished with a 7.4 scoring average and Weidenhammer averaged 6.6 points a game in 24 contests. Jim Brewer with a 1.5 average in 23 games also returns along with Dave Edwards who _ averaged 3.3 points in 12 contests.’ Jim Blocker’, who played the last half of the season, should help- along with' sophomores Rudler, .Christenson, Rudy Marisa, Bob Wainscott, Har ry Holm and Hoffman.
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